France arrests Russian captain of Moscow-linked oil tanker

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French authorities arrested the Russian captain of the Tagor, an oil tanker suspected of being part of Russia's so-called "ghost fleet," after the vessel was intercepted in the Atlantic Ocean by the French Navy. The Tagor, allegedly linked to Moscow and operating under murky ownership structures to evade sanctions, was boarded and brought under French control. Brest prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger announced the captain's Tuesday custody, marking an escalation in European enforcement actions against Russian shipping used to circumvent Western restrictions on oil sales. The "ghost fleet" refers to aging tankers that transport Russian crude while obscuring their connections to the Kremlin.